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Show THE AMAZON Compared Willi Which the JfUHBitiMfpiii 1h a Brook. New York, 27. The United Stales Bteamer JZnterjjrise, Commander Self ridge, arrived oS Brooklyn Davy yird yesterday afternoon, after a voyage ot five months exploring the Am-zon and its principal tributaries, more particularly the ifadeira. Captain Selfridge says the exploration wa ' a perfect success. The Madeira was found navigable 600 miles. The captain adds: "We found the volume of the A-nazou to be 7,000,000 cubic feet, a second,- and if the Mississippi were flowing into it it would not raise Us surface.perceplibly." . . |